House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said that the budget bill endorsed by President Donald Trump that passed in the House last week would not lead to more government spending.
In an interview with “Fox News” on May 25, Johnson was asked about a statement made by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) that cuts made in the bill “are wimpy and anemic” and may also “explode the debt.” Paul also said he would not support the measure unless it removes the $4 trillion debt limit increase.
Johnson disagreed with that statement, saying that getting the bill passed is a “critically important thing to do” and that the measure is actually “the biggest spending cut, I think, in the history of government on planet Earth.”…